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EDWARD J. BIEDERMAN, O F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters .Patent No. 81,062, dated August 18, 1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN:

Be it known that-I, EDWARD J. BInDnnMAN, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Packing Sugar and other similar matters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,'clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciticationyinwhich-- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my invention.

Figure 2 isa top view/oi" the same. Y

Figure-Sis a detached 'end-view of the clamp, shown on natural scale. f

Similar letters of reference indicate correspoudingparts in the several iigures. v

The object of this invention is to have aV more ready and simple operating and less expensive device for shaking the sugar-barrel while it is being filled and` packed than those heretofore known or used.

In this device, the barrel rests in the cavity of the bed-plate or platform of the machine, and'by means ,of a forked bar, with a screw-clamp on each fork-end, the upper rim vof the barrel, with the filling-bag, is tightly clamped on each side, while the single opposite end of the forked bar, being tted in a crank, receives a reciprocating motionfrom a-crank-shatt resting in bearings upon two` upright parts secured up/on the platform.

To enable others skilled in the art tomake and use` my invention, I wil-l proceed to'describe its construction and operation.

A represents the bed-plate or platform, which has a cavit`yB, in its forward part of suicient diameter to allow the placing of the harrelloosely in it. A

C C are two upright posts, which are fixed permanently in the rearward part of the platform, and maybe 'supported by braces, as shown in fig. 1,-secured to the platform.

D is a cranklshaft, resting vin bearingsjlE E, secured upon the parts C C, and

F is a forked bar, which is fitted in the central crank oi' the crank-shaft. d This forked bar F has on its outer ends downward-projecting forked ends or clamps G G, of which each outside lip is provided with la handscrew, H, so that after the usual Asugar-bag, through which the barrelis filled, is placed over the' barrel, and the ends G G. are placed over thc rim of the barrel on each side,the b ag with the end rof the rim .is clamped by means of Asetting up the screws H H. As soon as thebarrel is iilled, rotary motion is imparted to the crank-shaft D, `which imparts reciprocating motion to the barrels, thereby settling the sugar tightly down and packing it firmly or solidly. v

It will be perceived that by rncans of this device the bag is clamped with the rim of the barrel, and therebythe shaking operation can be done while the barrel is being lled,l or immediately after, and no. time is lost in the operation `w'hile the sugar is to be settled down; and it will be seen thatthis device is of vsimple and "durable construction, and consequently of little expense forlobtaining it'. l

- Having fully described my invention, what I claimtherein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl In devices for packing barrels with sugarand other substances, the combination .of the forked bar F with clamps G Gr and screws H H the cranks-shaft'D and platform A, arranged and 'operating substantially as and for the purpose hereinset forth. n

' ED. J. BIEDERMAN. Witnesses:

G. S. HARDING, 

